Discusses his early career and his relationship with Oppenheimer, his work at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb, and later, the development of the hydrogen bomb. Prominently mentioned are: Norris Edwin Bradbury, Emil Konopinski, Ernest O. Lawrence, Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Robert R. Wilson.

Robert Serber (1909-1997). Physicist (Nuclear physics). Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1934. University of California, Berkeley, 1934-38 and 1945-51; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1938-45; Manhattan Project, 1942-45; Columbia University, 1957-77; Emeritus Professor of physics, Columbia University 1977-1997.